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InfoQ – “Q&A on Continuous Delivery with Windows and .Net”

Chris O’Dell and Matthew Skelton have recently collaborated with O’Reilly Media and published a book titled “Continuous Delivery with Windows and .Net“. This quick guide is meant to show that continuous delivery can work very well with .Net and Windows environments despite the common misconception that it is for Linux users only.

Database Deployability – #2 Reduce Accidental Complexity

This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. `Deployability is now a first-class concern for databases, and there are several technical choices (conscious and accidental) which band together to block the deployability of databases. Can we improve database deployability and enable true Continuous Delivery for our software systems? Of course weContinue reading “Database Deployability – #2 Reduce Accidental Complexity”

WinOps Conf 2016 – DevOps-ification of Windows Server

(This is a guest post from Chris O’Dell, co-author of Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET (with Matthew Skelton) and developer on the Platform team at JUST EAT) WinOps describes itself as “the world’s only dedicated conference to ‘Windows in a DevOps world’”. The 2016 conference took place on 24 May in London; the event partnerContinue reading “WinOps Conf 2016 – DevOps-ification of Windows Server”

“Securing a Continuous Delivery Pipeline” – featured in DZone

DZone has recently published Matthew Skelton‘s and Manuel Pais‘ report on continuous delivery pipeline from the security perspective – “Securing a Continuous Delivery Pipeline”. The report was featured in their guidebook for continuous delivery as well – “The DZone Guide To Continuous Delivery, Vol III”, which is a collection of must-read articles featuring all you need to know aboutContinue reading ““Securing a Continuous Delivery Pipeline” – featured in DZone”

Building a Continuous Delivery Culture At Pipeline Conference

This post was written by John Clapham. 08:30hrs and already Pipeline Conference was buzzing, drawn together by an interest (in some cases obsession) with continuous delivery, getting stuff done, and a desire to improve, practitioners were gathering ready for the day’s talks. Pipeline is in its third year, distinguishing itself by being tightly focusedContinue reading “Building a Continuous Delivery Culture At Pipeline Conference”

Expanding The Definition Of Done

This post was written by John Clapham. Look around your team board, is it there? Perhaps there’s a scruffy, and curled post-it to one side, maybe by now it has fallen face down and joined the dust, old avatars and used markers on floor. Perhaps though your definition of done is in better shape; whatContinue reading “Expanding The Definition Of Done”

Highlights from Huawei Cloud Congress, Prague 2016

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. Huawei, the telecommunications equipment giant is slowly but surely shifting the focus from carrier business to the cloud computing market. Since 2010, Huawei heavily invested in product innovation and big data and do not plan to stop.

Reducing Vagrant Shell Provisioning Time

This post was written by Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Guide to Software Releasability. Context We recently wrote an article on DZone about bringing security into the delivery lifecycle where we covered both the people and technical perspectives. To demo a deployment pipeline setup including automated security checks we decided to use a VM createdContinue reading “Reducing Vagrant Shell Provisioning Time”

Pipeline Conference 2016

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. Returning for the third year in a row, the Pipeline Conference is bigger than ever! Organised by Matthew Skelton, Steve Smith, Chris O’Dell, Beccy Stafford and Anthony Green, the “unconference” is buzzing with excitement this morning!